Cecile Pin (born 1996) is a French author based in London. She is known for her debut novel '' Wandering Souls'' (2023).

Early life

Pin was born and raised in Paris to a French father and a Vietnamese mother who had arrived in the 1970s from a camp in Thailand. She also spent four years of her childhood in New York, where she attended a French School. At age 18, Pin moved to London to study Philosophy at University College London (UCL). She completed a Master of Arts (MA) at

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Career

Pin previously worked as an editorial assistant at

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. Via HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate and with help from the 2021 London Writers' Award, Pin's debut novel '' Wandering Souls'' was published in March 2023. Its U.S. publisher was Henry Holt. Pin had become inspired researching the Vietnamese boat people, especially Vietnamese refugees to Britain. She felt the British Southeast Asian community was underrepresented in literature. Her philosophy studies also had an influence on the novel. ''Wandering Souls'' was shortlisted for the

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and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The French translation by Carine Chichereau also received a Fragonard (fragrance), Fragonard Prize for Foreign Literature. In January 2024, Fourth Estate acquired the rights to Pin's second novel ''Celestial Light''.

Bibliography

* '' Wandering Souls'' (2023) * ''Celestial Light'' (TBA)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pin, Cecile Living people 1996 births Alumni of King's College London Alumni of University College London British people of Vietnamese descent French expatriates in England French people of Vietnamese descent Novelists from Paris